Current engagement opportunities

The City of Ottawa wants your input on the projects, policies, programs, and services that affect your daily life. From open houses to workshops and online engagement opportunities, your feedback helps to shape City decisions.

The City offers residents a variety of opportunities to engage, share information and collaborate. You can weigh in on different online engagement opportunities using the City’s new innovative engagement platform, Engage Ottawa.

• Your city, your ideas: City of Ottawa Service Reviews
  • Do you have ideas on how the City of Ottawa can improve our services and save money to reinvest into other priorities? If so, we want to hear from you!
• Anti-racism and ethnocultural relations
  • Help us better address racism in our city.
• Community Safety and Well-Being Plan
  • Provide your feedback on strategies and actions to improve safety and well-being for everyone in Ottawa.
• Open Ottawa
  • The City provides free access to data and information through its Open Ottawa data portal. As part of the City’s Smart City 2.0 Strategy, we want to hear your ideas on how to improve the portal and what data sets you would like to see.
• Parks and Recreation Facilities Master Plan 
  • The City is looking for your feedback on the first Parks and Recreation Facilities Master Plan. 
• Solid Waste Master Plan
  • Provide your feedback on how the City should manage solid waste over the next 30 years.
• Transportation Master Plan
  • Provide your feedback on how the City how our transportation system can move us in the right direction for decades to come.

• Ottawa’s Next Culture Plan – Survey & open-houses starting in April onwards
• Rhubarb Park Concept Plans (Kanata) – Vote on proposed concepts until April 24, 2025
• Fenced off-leash dog area (Village of Richmond) – Submit your feedback until April 24, 2025
• Proposed concepts for the addition of fitness equipment at St. Paul's Park – Vote on proposed concepts until April 11, 2025
• Beyond the Brim Exhibition – Submissions open until June 1
• 1245 Kilborn Place Concept Plan – Submit your suggestions on the future use of 1245 Kilborn Place